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2 24 vous donner la chair de poule: 'make your flesh creep' With the French chair de poule 'hen flesh' cf. Engl. "goose flesh". 236 yataganerie. the yatagan, 'yataghan, is the saber of the Turks and the Arabs, from this word Daudet coined yataganerie on the analogy of épicerie, papeterie, etc, transl. 'paraphernalia of war'. 228 bonhomme a noun used adjectively, transl. 'kindly'.
57 7 bon: 'good natured, 'kindly, not 'good. 57 11 On but sec: 'they drank hard. Boire sec means to drink pure wine, without the usual admixture of water. 57 12 au Monténégro libre: Montenegrin independence was frequently menaced by Turkey during the nineteenth century.
You are kindly requested to address to the nearest Newspaper office these news desired with the utmost impatience by the families of the travellers in the balloon LE G
Will you kindly interpret a French gentleman who does not speak a word of English? Certainly, Sir, with pleasure.
Le capitaine lit les prières et le public répond, puis on lit l'épître et l'évangile du jour; on récite plusieurs psaumes et le Te Deum, et on termine par ce cantique: Lead kindly Light amid the encircling gloom Lead Thou me on; The night is dark, and I am far from home Lead Thou me on!
312 brave: cf. un brave homme 'a good, kindly man, un homme brave 'a brave man'. 3 13 bonasse: bon + the pejorative suffix -asse, 'guileless'. 3 19 midi midday, 'noon, 'South', Latin media dies. 3 22 Vous saurez: 'you must know'.
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